St. Anne's Academy wishes to take this initial step
toward becoming a "Stellar School". It is the
belief of the school community that exposing students to
such a medium as the internet is both advantageous and
rewarding for all involved. Hence, our goal is that our
students would, first, make use of the Internet as
resource and second, ultimately, place themselves and
their school among others on the World Wide Web.

The project would involve the creation of a "St.
Anne's Academy" home page by the school's grade nine
students. The project would officially begin upon
approval, though preliminary work is already under way,
and would be completed by April 3, 1998.

Two classes of grade nine students will be assigned
various roles in order to ensure completion of the
project. Delegation of duties would include:
organization, research, photography, writing, design, and
programming roles. A select group (group leaders) would
receive tutorials in Microsoft Front Page Express, the
preferred software for actual page production, from the
lead teacher. This type of software is very current and
known for efficiently and sophistication in homepage
production. An even smaller number of students will
receive tutorials in the basis of Hyper Text Markup
Language (HTML) for trouble-shooting purposes during the
programming stage.

Other students will:

contribute, formulate and finalize, layout and
design ideas.

research and compile specific information and
items (in various formats) pertaining to the
school and local communities.

formally write and edit the information.

select appropriate pictures and images.

research and identify relevant and interesting
Universal Resource Locators (URLs) to which our
homepage would extended through links.

scan images in order to add relevant or
interesting pictures.

visit and research already existing home pages to
use e-mail to contact relevant parties during the
formulation of ideas stage.

Students are currently encouraged, in all areas of the
curriculum, to become familiar, comfortable and confident
with various technological and communication learning
mediums. This project would provide the necessary hands
on experience to do so. Furthermore, this project would
be directly linked to the grade nine Social Studies
program, specifically the current "Culture"
unit, where students are encouraged and invited to
explore and become knowledgeable of their school and
their local communities, as well as the forms and mediums
of communication.

Evaluation of the project will be both
formative and summative. Students input will be monitored
throughout. The specific assignment given to students
will be evaluated formal, as will the final home page
itself for content and presentation. The project,
ultimately, will be an ongoing one, with this and other
groups updating and improving the page as time goes on.